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INDEX

Aachen, 379n

Aaron, 86n

Abbas (uncle of the Prophet), 186–7

Abbas, Mahmoud, 507–9, 518n

Abbasid dynasty, 188–90, 194–5, 403

Abcarius Bey, 400n

Abd al-Malik, Caliph, 27n, 172n, 181–4, 188, 190

Abdi-Hepa, King, 14–15

Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, see Saud

Abdul-Hamid II, Sultan, 362, 364, 377, 384, 402, 424

Abdullah, King of Jordan, 402–3, 406, 432–3, 441, 448, 468, 470, 513

assassination, 484–5

and Israeli war, 474–83

Abdullah II, King of Jordan, 492, 513

Abdullah, Saud, K, see Saud

Abdullah Pasha, 323

Abdulmecid, Sultan, 330, 348

Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 334

Abibaal, King of Tyre, 25

Abishag, 25

Aboukir Bay, Battle of, 312

Abraham, 16, 27n, 39n, 45n, 86, 152n and Islam, 170, 182, 185

Abraham’s Vineyard, 335

Absalom, 23–4

Absalom’s Pillar, 24n, 195

Abu al-Abbas, Caliph, see al-Saffah Abu Bakr, 171–2

Abu Dis, 507

Abu Ghosh, 308–9, 346, 363

Abu Muslim, 187–8

Abu Saad, 200n

Abu Sulayman Dawud, 243

Abu Ubayda, 172, 404

Abyssinia, 453n

Achcar, Gilbert, 435, 455n

Acra fortress, 62, 65–7

Acre, 310–11, 315, 322, 456

Crusader siege, 255–8

and Crusaders, 209, 213n, 216–17, 227, 233, 236, 239, 243, 249, 255–8, 263, 265n, 267, 269–70

and Mamluk conquest, 277–8, 279

Napoleonic siege, 316–17

see also Ptolemais

Actian Games, 83

Actium, Battle of, 81, 88

Adam, 17, 27n, 152n, 170, 182, 185

Adams, John, President, 337, 374

Adelaide, Queen of Jerusalem, 217–18

Adhemar of Le Puy, Bishop, 210–11

Adiabene, Helena, Queen of, see Helena

Adonijah, 25

Adonizedek, King, 18

Aegean Sea, 15, 18

Aelia Capitolina, 134–5, 137–8, 140, 145–7

Afdal, Sultan, 247–8, 264, 437, 502

Afdaliyya Madrassa, 264

Afghanistan, 54, 161, 187, 406

Agnes, Queen Mother, 237, 243–4

Agrippina, Empress, 116, 120

Ahab, King, 31–2

Ahaz, King, 33–4

al-Ahd, 403

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 48n Ahmed Duzhdar Aga, 351

Ahmet Jazzar Pasha, the Butcher, see Jazzar, Pasha, Ahmet

Aibeg, Sultan, 272n

Aisha, 171

Akeldama, 109, 227, 389

Akhenaten, pharaoh, 14, 15n

Akhmon, Arik, 494

Akiba, Rabbi, 135–6

Alami family, 360, 446

Musa al-Alami, 447

Sheikh al-Alami, 255n

Alamut, 203n

Alapaesk, 444n

Alaska, 382n

Alchelai, Rabbi Yehuda Hai, 374

Aleppo, 220, 234, 254, 264, 271n, 276, 291, 303, 405, 416n

Alexander the Great, 52–5, 57, 72, 82n, 106n, 133

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 340

Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 347, 350n, 353, 368

Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, 368–9

Alexander Jannaeus, King, 69–70, 71n, 106n, 233n

Alexander, Prince, 88–9, 93n

Alexander, Michael Solomon, 334

St Alexander Nevsky Church, 135n, 147n, 369, 386

Alexandra, 79–81, 83

Alexandra, Empress of Russia, 369, 386n, 387n, 444n

Alexandria, 54–6, 60, 62, 74, 76–7, 81–2, 122, 124, 126, 144–5, 164, 239, 281, 333

Alexandrium fortress, 81, 89

Alexei, Tsarevich, 385

Alexios, Emperor, 209

Ali (Caliph), 178, 180, 187–8, 194

Ali, King, 432n

Ali Bey, 310

Aliyah, 369–70, 375, 383

Allenby, General Sir Edmund, 1st Viscount, 355n, 408–9, 414–21, 425–6, 486n, 496

Allenby Barracks, 463

Almohads, 240